The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-25


watching David with increased suspicion.
they see him standing by the door running
ms hands meanip Siessly up and down the
panels-scrabBing on the door as though
ne would Climb up, his mouth wide omen,
droohpg like an infant. / suppose the
BOYS Of the streets threw missiles at him,
bW the sober people of the town said:
This is not fair. Do you not see that
ne has lost his reasoni Do not touch this
madmau. Hands Off hands ofr'
So David escaped; but what an exhibit
tiOn he made Of himself before all the
ugesl There was a majesty an King
Lear's madness after Regain and Gonerih
his daughters, had persuaded him TO
Danish their sister Cordelia, and all the
friends Of the drama have been thrilled
with that spectacle. The craziness of
Meg Merrilles was weird and imposing,
and the most tolilng passage in Walter
SCOTS Guy Mannering." There was a
fascination about the insanity of Alex
ander Cruden, who made the best con-
cOrdRnce Of the b BILE that the world ever
sayg-made it between the Warehouses
Some time ago, while was visiting the
insane asylum on Blaclzwel's Island, a
demended woman came up to me and said
in most tragic style:
God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform;
he plants His footsteps ~ the sea-
ana rides upon the storm.
But there was pSthing grand, nothing
weird, nothing majestic, nothing sublime,
about the stimulation on the part of David.
instead Of trusting in the Lord as he h "a
on otGer occasions, he gathers before him
vast audience Of Uu generations that
were TO come, and standing on that con-
spicuous stage of history, in the presence
OF all the ages, he impersOnates the slav-
ering idiot.
And he changed his behavior before them
and foigned himself mad in their hands, and
scraBbled NJ the door Of the gate, and let his
sDittle fall upon his beard.
Taking the behavior Of David as a sug-
gestion, 1 wish to tell you how many Of
the wise, and the brave, and the regal
sometimes play the fool. And I'm the first
place / remark that those men as badly
play the fool as this man Of the text, who,
in any crisis of life, take their cases out
of the hand of God. David, in this case,
acted as though thcre were no God to lift
him out Of this predicament What
contrast between his behavior,
when this brave little man stood up in
front Of the giant ten feet in height, and
looking into his face said;
Thou contest to me with a sword, and with a
spear, and with a shield; but I come to thee in
the name Of the Lord of Hosts. the God of the
armies of Israel whom thou hast deied. This
day viii the Lord deliver thee into mine hand,
ana L win smite thee and take thine head
from thee, and viii give the carcasses Of the
hosts Of tho Phuistines this day unto the fowls
Of the alp. and 70 the Wild beasts Of the earth
that ai the earth may know that there is a God
inIsrael.
Between that time and this time when
he debased himself, and bedraggled his
manhood, and affected insanity in order
that no might escape from the grip Of the
Gathites. In the one case he played the
hero. In the other case he played the fool
So does every man who, In the great crisis
of life takes his case out of the hand of
God Tic life OF the most insignificant
man in this house is too vast for any hu-
man management One time, returning
from the West, 1 very easily got on the
locomotive while passing over the plains
and talked with the engineer; but coming
on toward tho Allegheny Mountains, 1
thought 1 would like to sit on the locomo-
tive as % came down from the mountains
amidst that most wonderful scenery ON
this continent. / asked the engineer If
might ride, but he courteously enied me,
for there the grade is so steep, and so wind
ing, and so perilOus, that he must not have
any one on the locomotive who may di-
vert his attention whe- eve and hand and
toot and brain must be COncentcred, ready
Tor the most sudden emergency. Well
my friends, life is so steep, and so peril
Gus. and so exposed TO sudden surprises,
thatuonc but the Lord Almighty can guide
and engineer il, and our disasters come
from the fact that we want to get up and
help tho Lord TO manage the train.
Keep of the euglnel BE willing to let
God pull YOU where he wants to pull you.
You have no right for an instant to sur
render your sanity and manhood as David
SURRENDERED his. Put your trust in God,
and he win take you through and over the
mountains. l very much suspect that all
tho successful enterprises that were ever
carried on, and all the successful lives
that have ever been lived have been fully
surrendered to God. When the girl Vic
toria was awakened i'm the night and told
that the throne of Great britian was hers,
she said to tho prellte informing her:
~ ask your prayers and then and there
they knelt down and prayed. Do you
wonder that though since that time al
The thrones Of Europe have fallen or been
fearfully shaken, hers stands as trm
as the day she assembled 70; and i'm
every country under the sun. wherever
an EuClishmau hears that name
pronounced ne feels like waving his
hat and crying: "God save the QueenF'
That man and that woman who put their
trust ia God viii so through in triumph,
while those who attempt 20 gather under
their own supervision the intricate and
elaborate affairs of their lives are misera-
bly, playing the fool.
stood on the beach, looking OF the sea,
and there was astrong wind blowing, and
noticed that some Of tho vessels were
going that way, and other vessels were
going another way I SAID to myself:
"How IS il that the same wind sends one
vessel in one direction and another vessel
Ia another directiouf
found out, 10y looking, that it was the
different way they hal the sails set. And
30 does trouble come in this world Some
men IL drives into tho harbor OF heaven.
and other men 10 drives on the rocks. IL
depends upon the way you have your sails
set. An the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
of surriug sorrow can not sink soul that
has asked for Gods pilotage. The DIM
Guilty is, that when we have misfortunes
of any kind, we put them In Gods hand
and they stay there a little while, and
then we go and get than again, and bring
them back.
4 vessel comes in from o foreign port
Asst comes near The harbor it sees a pilo
floating about To halls The pilot Ihl
niIot comes on board and he says:
CHOW Captain, you have bad stormy
massage. Go down and sleep and 1 W.
take the vessel into Sew York harbor-"
After awhile the Captain begins I'd
mink;
'Ara ] right in trusting this vessel q
that pilot1 j guess I'll 90 up and see.'
So he comes 10 tho pilot and says;
Don't you see that ROOKIE Don't yo'